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Can Heat be Converted to Work?


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The explanation of Can Heat be Converted to Work,

  1. No, we can not completely convert heat to work. In general, all the forms of energy can be converted to heat, but heat cannot be able to convert to work or the other form of energy.
  2. But we can be able to completely convert work to heat.

Reason: The reason behind this is that heat contains a lot of entropy in the form of disorganized, random, and self-defeating molecular motion. Thus, heat is considered to be a degraded form of energy.


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